The Bumpy Road

I know I know I been bad and haven't written in this since September.  Quite a bit has happened in nearly 2 months, lets sum it up and then get to the interesting title of this post.  Back in September things were going pretty good, then October rolled around and lets say the shti hit the fan, to sum it up briefly   Not going to go into to much details but at the moment not talking to a friend due to something I did and earning back trust till then.  Thats mainly the reason why October started off bad with that.  Not to mention my Grandpa fell and broke his hip and shoulder.  He fell last year and broke his lip around the same time of year, glad to say Grandpa went to Rehab and is doing better, I guess.  I say that since I don't hardly see him as much as I should or want to; long story for another time.  October was also the Zombie Walk which I went to same as last year it was fun got a few pics I posted up on facebook.  This year for Halloween I hung out with Kris and one of his co-workers, kinda that whole week.  I did something I never did before and thats waited with them for a game to come out at midnight, it was fun even though it could've been super boring.  But what do you expect when you have friends to entertain you with.  Halloween, Kris myself and Dan his co-worker went to a Hookah Bar it was fun we met some new potential cool people to hang out with.  I went dressed up in a prison jumpsuit, Kris was a Irish ship captain, and Dan was Ron Jeremy.

9

So here it is already the 9th month, aka September.  I have to admit I been slacking at writing in this journal in the next few days or so I might even copy it over to facebook in the notes and update notes and this so I can reach more people.  These pasts few days minus today I been lonely and sad it might be the rain we had since it normally brings me down.  I noticed majority of time when it rains I get very emotional and I hate it.  Recently I hung out with my friend Nikki who is like a sister to me I also hung out with another friend.  I have known Nikki nearly 7-8 years same as Kris actually and I don't know where I would be without both of them in my life.  They have stood with me through the up and downs I have faced.  Nikki is like a adviser to me and when I am complaining or bitching she takes one for the Mark team and listens, a really good friend. This weekend is the thunder camping trip which I obviously didn't go to due to funds being low and also some other things that popped up.  One fun thing I did was recently surprised a friend for his birthday I know he happens to like Winnie The Pooh, so I got him a pooh plushie.  His birthday isn't until October but I figured I would get his gift early.  Coming up I have more gifts for people I need to get and even start saving for the fair which is in about a month, I can't wait.

TED

So this past week I got to see Ted, first off I want to stress that a movie about a cute looking teddy bear is fun but THIS IS NOT A CHILDS MOVIE AT ALL.  In fact in terms of money it beat what the Hangover Part 2 made for a Rated R movie.  I thought it was funny and that it was cute but also very adult in the same way.  I think Patrick Stewart did a great job being the narrator and same with all the actors.  They did a great job working on this and this is a movie I would pay to go see again at the box office or on DVD. Also this week I went swimming with friends it was fun other then being tossed around the pool alot but still it was hilarious had fun.  Chatted with them some serious topics and had fun singing camp songs by a table just for fun.  Also we had quite a few storms blow into Phoenix it was nice other then the crazy wind and the rain yesterday wasn't to bad it was a nice change to the valley I thought.

Long Time Coming

So it's not like I been neglecting my blog on purpose or anything I just been super super busy and some recent things have happened, although I should of updated it regardless.  The first major thing that has happened is my normal computer I use crashed so currently I am using another one from time so I m not online as much as I used to be.  Also each week I been going to my friends and we been playing D20.  Kris has recently started a campaign involving mechs.  Basically they are like human controlled robots and so our characters control them fight bad guys and sometimes we do it like the cavemen do.  We walk and go into buildings and shoot up the bad guys.  Also I started my campaign the Zombie Apocalypse campaign.  I am working on it like a tv show in the sense that there is seasons so I finished season 1 in fact today I finished season 2.  Believe it or not this is super tough to do since you have to get the stats of monsters which don't exist so I basically make them up off the top of my head.  This is actually tough as well since you have to balance a monsters strength vs how much damage a creature can do.  You don't want your zombies super powerful but you don't want them super weak as well.  Players in D20 need and want a challenge.  On top of playing Dr. Frankenstein I also been reading here and there.  One of the current books I am reading is called Haunted Hollywood by Tom Ogden.  This book is about various ghosts and also haunted stories in Hollywood one of the things I like though besides the supernatural aspect of it, they talk about the history of Hollywood.  I also got a few other paranormal books as well one by Syliva Browne and one by Mary Ann Winkowski.  I know lots of people and even recently have really questioned Sylvia Browne's physic abilities.  With that at the same time the few books I have read by her I did actually enjoy and learned learning something new.

Week of change

So this week, Monday to Thursday I did quite a few things dealing with change in away.  One of the usual things me and Kris and our friends did was play D20.  The change in this was my character basically fired his MP5 where as normally he wouldn't, he even helped out by trying to take a few enemies out even in a warehouse battle.  On Monday I rearranged Kris's mom to make more room and put up some totes that needed to be organized.  Then Tuesday me and him attempted to see what was wrong with his truck, we still haven't solved the problem but it's looking like a easy task.  Overall it was a fun week although I didn't work to much on my writing project.  However it gave me a chance to come up with some new potential ideas for stories.  However I still have a hard project coming up soon after I finish writing my current story.

Lucky Number 20

So yesterday I went and hung with one of my best friends Kris in Mesa near where he lives.  He invited me over to hang out with some friends of his at their house and basically we played d20 modern.  Basically d20 modern for those who don't know is Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) but set in a modern world.  So D&D might have elves, dwarfs, trolls, hobbits where as D20 would have mobsters, doctors, news reporters.  It's a fun dice role-playing game and I recommend it to anyone who might be interested in table top role-playing.  This particular campaign was set in a post apocalyptic world.  My character is named Joel Sullivan and he is a private detective.  He met up with Kris and his friend party somewhere in Texas and they joined up heading to boats got side tracked with a gun battle on the way to the ships and even stopped in a cyborg trading town.  One of the things I like about the system is you can set up a character pretty much how you want.  My character is mainly better at ranged then melee attacks but I still had him enter a melee tournament and he still did decent.  Just like in real life or even a story the characters interact and obviously do combat.  I tend to prefer the interacting more then combat but it depends on the mood I am in.  For some reason I have always loved the character name of Joel Sullivan and this goes back to my first time ever role-playing.  Kris, Me and some other friends were playing this campaign that our friend Steven did, it was basically Resident Evil meets Phoenix Arizona.  My character started out as Jack Daniels and made it out of Phoenix alive and all of the people who made it out got new names by the government so they could hide what happened in Arizona.  So I picked Joel Sullivan as his new name.  When I get to posting some of my stories for fun one of them is going by notes and memory of the various things Jack and the fellow characters experienced in Arizona so look forward to that.